541162 - Editing in Text Window is disabled, Forwarding stops working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 525359

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Tomas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: 3.0.1

No longer able to edit emails in the text edit window. All I get is the arrow cursor, not the text cursor. This occurs with new mail, reply, and forward.

This bug started suddenly about an hour ago. Tried rebooting Thunderbird, then computer. Did not fix problem.

Had to download 2.0.0.18 to resume woring with email again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load and run
2. 
3.
Actual Results:  
Problem did not exist, then started suddenly. Once problem manifested itself, it would not go away despite reboots of Thunderbird or OS/

Expected Results:  
Nothing

I own a Power PC Mac, running the latest update of OS X4. My wife owns a PC running Vista. Interestingly, her computer met with this same bug yesterday. Mine today. doesn't seem like a coincidence, though it's interesting it happened one day apart/

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I can edit. could you start thunderbird 3.0.1 in -safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) and see if your issue is solved ?

If the issue isn't solved can you look into Tools -> Error console and paste the errors that should be in it ?

Comment 3

[Roger Thodenius]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can edit. could you start thunderbird 3.0.1 in -safe-mode
> (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) and see if your issue is solved ?
> 
> If the issue isn't solved can you look into Tools -> Error console and paste
> the errors that should be in it ?

I also have the same problem, please find below the error messages:

Error message 1:
---------------
Avertissement : « , » ou « { » attendu, mais « * » trouvé.  Jeu de règles ignoré suite à un mauvais sélecteur.
Fichier Source : mailbox:///home/Roger/.thunderbird/13djbekr.default/Mail/pop3.thodenius.com/Trash?number=72436
Ligne : 10

When I look at where it points I get the following information (only the beginning of it copied here):

From - Thu Sep  2 10:46:02 2010
X-Account-Key: account3
X-UIDL: 000012fa4ae6bba8
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000
X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
Return-path: <[e-mail]>
Delivery-date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:32 +0200
Received: from [62.193.206.46] (helo=av3.amenworld.com)
	by massenet11.register.it with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
	(envelope-from <[e-mail]>)
	id 1Or4VE-0002Wh-BW
	for [e-mail]; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:32 +0200
Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4])
	by av3.amenworld.com with AMEN
	id 1jmU1f00c05PTv003jmXdg; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:32 +0200
Received: from PAPA (unknown [82.228.246.65])
	by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 39FC84C80B1
	for <[e-mail]>; Thu,  2 Sep 2010 09:46:18 +0200 (CEST)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-Id: <4C7F54C9.000019.01820@PAPA>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:39:54 +0200 (Paris, Madrid (heure d'été))
Content-Type: Multipart/related;
  charset="iso-8859-1";
  type="multipart/alternative";
  boundary="------------Boundary-00=_HYZ3ENY1VA4000000000"
X-Mailer: IncrediMail (6134665)
From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
X-FID: E1A7DAE8-C047-4AF308AB3-768D1DABC165
X-Priority: 3
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?Q2jocXVlcyBjYWRlYXV4IFBBUlJBSU5BR0UgIkFHIEFzc3VyYW5jZXMi?=
Disposition-Notification-To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
To: undisclosed-recipients
DomainKey-Status: Testing no signature (DK_STAT_NOSIG: No signature available in message)


--------------Boundary-00=_HYZ3ENY1VA4000000000
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative;
  boundary="------------Boundary-00=_IYZ39Y21VA4000000000"

The text that was highlighted when I reached this message was the following:
by massenet11.register.it with esmtp (Exim 4.69)


Error message 2:
----------------
Avertissement : « , » ou « { » attendu, mais « * » trouvé.  Jeu de règles ignoré suite à un mauvais sélecteur.
Fichier Source : about:blank
Ligne : 1

about:blank gives the following information:
--------------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>

It is reproducible at will with the mail in question.

Best regards,
Roger

Comment 4

[Roger Thodenius]

Attachment: I can reproduce it under 3.0 and 3.1 using the attached mail

I can reproduce at will the bug 541162 using the attached mail under Thunderbird 3.0 or 3.1. I use KDE 4.5, Fedora 13.

Comment 5

[Roger Thodenius]

(In reply to comment #4)
Starting in Safe mode doesn't solve the problem.

Comment 6

[Roger Thodenius]

When I read the mail (the one I previously attached in comment 4) I get the following 2 messages in the error console when running in safe mode:

Message #1:

Warning: Expected ',' or '{' but found '*'.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Source File: mailbox:///home/Roger/.thunderbird/13djbekr.default/Mail/pop3.thodenius.com/Inbox?number=1667176989
Line: 10

Message #2:

Security Error: Content at mailbox:///home/Roger/.thunderbird/13djbekr.default/Mail/pop3.thodenius.com/Inbox?number=1667176989 may not load or link to file:///.

When I the try to reply to it I get the blank message text field into which I can't write text and I see the following 2 additional messages in the error console:

Message 3:

Security Error: Content at about:blank may not load or link to file:///.

Message 4:

Warning: Expected ',' or '{' but found '*'.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Source File: about:blank
Line: 1

Please let me know if there is anything further I can do to help you resolving this problem?
Best regards,
Roger.

Comment 7

[Roger Thodenius]

I have now found a way of further refining when it doesn't work:

When I display the message body text as ORIGINAL HTML I can't edit text into the response when I reply to it.

However, if I display in SIMPLE HTML or TEXT ONLY I can edit into the message when replying.

Also, once the error has occurred in ORIGINAL HTML mode I have to restart Thunderbird to be able to respond&edit in SIMPLE HTML or TEXT ONLY mode.

I hope this helps.

Comment 8

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #7)
> When I display the message body text as ORIGINAL HTML I can't edit text into
> the response when I reply to it.
>(snip)
> Also, once the error has occurred in ORIGINAL HTML mode I have to restart
> Thunderbird to be able to respond&edit in SIMPLE HTML or TEXT ONLY mode.

It sounds bug 525359. See also bugs dup'ed to bug 525359.
Check HTML source of the mail. Is contenteditable=yes used in HTML?

Comment 9

[Roger Thodenius]

In response to WADA:
The following was found in the HTMLfile: contentEditable=3Dtrue
But what I don't understand is why you ask the question. I have already attached the mail message containing the HTML message to this bug report. Please see above under Attachments.

The problem is known since several months now but still seems to be unassigned. 

Question to the bug fixing team: Does this mean that users should stop using "Original HTML" option in the "Message Body As" menu entry under the "View" menu ? And instead use only "Simple HTML" or "Plain Text" ?

Many other users have the same problem and also the problem 525359 since a long time. I have already considered leaving Thunderbird to use KMail instead. I'm afraid many other users think the same.

I think we need a statement from the bugfixing team.